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Re: getpid?
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Date: 
Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:57:57 GMT
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Pavel Petrovic wrote:

this is not exactly what I meant. What I am looking for is how
can a piece of code determine which process is currently executing
it. something like:
[code snipped]

Ah, I understand. You could still use my method, but you'd have to pass
the pid in as a parameter to the functions that need to know it, which
would be ugly.

the implementation of getpid() in the kernel should not
be difficult, just return the id of currently executing
process...?

Well, get hacking! ;)

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(...) The following patch will add both getpid() and getppid() to legOS: diff -u -r1.2 unistd.h --- include/unistd.h 2000/08/01 01:12:40 1.2 +++ include/unistd.h 2000/12/14 21:49:56 @@ -94,4 +94,7 @@ //! kill all processes with priority lower or (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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(...) this is not exactly what I meant. What I am looking for is how can a piece of code determine which process is currently executing it. something like: main(...) ... create 2 processes with pid1, pid2 ... these processes occasionally call (...) (24 years ago, 14-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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